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Electronic sackbut – invented by Hugh Le Caine in 1945 as a precursor to voltage-controlled synthesizers; Five-pin bowling – invented by Thomas F. Ryan in Toronto in 1909; Goalie mask – invented by Jacques Plante in 1959; Ice hockey – invented in 19th century Canada; Instant replay – invented for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada in 1955
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Sports originating in Canada (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Canadian inventions" The following 69 pages are in this category, out of 69 total.
The first innovators and inventors in Canada were the native peoples who arrived 14,000 years ago. They innovated techniques to survive in a very new and mostly hostile environment. This involved new ways to obtain food, create clothing and travel across a huge territory. Notable inventions included the canoe, snowshoe, igloo and pemmican. The ...
April 22 – Canada announces it will join the boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. April 30 – Hockey player Gordie Howe retires; May 11 – The Cornwall Royals win their second Memorial Cup by defeating the Peterborough Petes 3 to 2. The final game was played at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba
Digital media were first introduced to Canada in the 1980s, when the CD and DVD became popular with consumers. The traditional media began to develop an on-line presence in the new century. Newspapers including Canada's two English-language "national", dailies, The Globe and Mail and the National Post went on line as did the weekly Maclean's ...
Robert Swanson (1905–1994), Canada – invented and developed the first multi-chime air horn for use with diesel locomotives; Andrei Sychra (c.1773/76–1850), Lithuania/Russia, Czech descent – Russian seven-string guitar; Walter Sylvester (1867–1944), UK – the "Sylvester", for safely removing pit props
This is a list of inventions followed by name of the inventor (or whomever else it is named after). For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see Lists of etymologies . The list